The X6 which is dated. Only gonna keep it because I have a bunch of great samples on there and I can use it as a midi keyboard.
I hope FL has an easy learning curve. Software intimidates me
A great piece of hardware it's an instrument for sure. For instrumentation you have to lead with the creative portion of your brain. Software for the most part is technical, pointing and clicking, fine tuning and adjusting- that's why people bytch about swing, timing and expression also why their is a demand for great sounds. FL or anything will never be able to create the magic that came out of motown because it was all live instruments.
Back in the day and even now engineers and mixers are tech guys that are in the studio and sessions with artists or producers who are singing (using their voice as an instrument) or people playing instruments.
Fantom is a staple, definitely there are upgrades and be sounds and such that are missing but plenty of cats use Fantoms for putting together tracks and playing.
I was a Fantom Stan hardcore for years, i thought if I got one it would be all I ever need. It definitely has all the tools and sounds but I for one didn't have that creative mindset from years of being technical and using reason. Putting tracks together pointing and clicking, dragging, having every sound at my disposal. I stopped fukking with that and started messing with instruments, guitar, keyboards/piano, synthesizers and am getting that creative edge back.